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This Day in Minnesota History

January 1, 1840

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Lawrence Taliaferro, tired of bribery attempts by crooked individuals, steps down as Indian agent of St. Peters (outside Fort Snelling), a position he had held since 1820. Native Americans and settler-colonists alike appreciated his honesty and intelligence, and his journals about life at Fort Snelling provide a detailed record of frontier Minnesota. He died on January 22, 1871, aged eighty-one.

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